Headline Roundup • August 16th, 2012
Family Research Counsel Shooting
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Townhall
Mary Katharine Ham provides the details:
Compressed for your viewing ease, two hours and 45 minutes of news on CNN without a mention of a shooting at the advocacy groupโs office 1.1 miles from the CNN D.C. bureau. This is the West Coast feed (I'm in the Los Angeles area), so thatโs why the clock in the corner flashes both Eastern and Pacific times.
MSNBC and Fox were quicker and more aggressive with their coverage, putting it on TV and on their home pages within the time it took CNN...
CNN Digital
The suspect in the shooting at the Family Research Council walked into the headquarters of the conservative group armed with a 9mm pistol and shot a security guard, saying "I don't like your politics," authorities alleged in a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
The complaint accuses Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, of a federal firearms violation and assault with intent to kill.
The council is a Christian group focused on family and anti-abortion issues and religious liberties that recently came out in support of Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy. The executive enraged...
Politico
Yesterdays shooting at the conservative Family Research Council in downtown Washington, D.C., is symptomatic of a broader lack of civility in political discourse, the head of an organization promoting traditional marriage said Thursday.
โ[The] responsibility is on the shooter but we need to have a civil debate over issues like redefining marriage,ย said Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, appearing on CNNs Early Start. โBut we should not be attacking and labeling as hate groups those [with which] we disagree. We should condemn violence of any...
